This paper summarizes the 3rd Book Structure Extraction competition that was run at the
ICDAR 2013. Its goal is to evaluate and compare automatic techniques for deriving structure …

The OCR-ed books usually lack logical structure information, such as chapters, sections. To
enrich the navigation experience of users, several approaches have been proposed to …

We present different methods for the two tasks of the 2019 FinTOC challenge: Title Detection
and Table of Contents Extraction. For the Title Detection task we present different …

In this paper, we present the method we have designed and implemented for identifying lists
and sentences in PDF documents while participating to FinSBD-2 Financial Document …

This paper addresses the task of extracting the table of contents (TOC) from OCR-ed books.
Since the OCR process misses a lot of layout and structural information, it is incapable of …

Traditional Information Retrieval (IR) methods were initially used for searching and ranking
web pages on the Web. These methods were progressively modified to exploit the …

The GREYC Island team participated in the Structure Extraction Competition part of the INEX
Book track for the second time, with the Resurgence software. We used a minimal strategy …

Books being a valuable source of knowledge and learning, have always been searched for
on the Web. Traditional Web Information Retrieval (IR) techniques of searching and ranking …

We present our contributions for the 2020 FinTOC Shared Tasks: Title Detection and Table
of Contents Extraction. For the Structure Extraction task, we propose an approach that …

Skimming and scanning are two strategies generally used for speed reading. Skimming
allows a reader to get a first glance of a document; scanning is the process of searching for a …